what

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

what BrE [wɒt] NAmE [wɑːt] NAmE [wʌt] pronoun, determiner
1. used in questions to ask for particular information about sb/sth
• What is your name?
• What (= what job) does he do?
•What time is it?
•What kind of music do you like?
compare ↑which
2. the thing or things that; whatever
• What you need is a good meal.
• Nobody knows what will happen next.
•I spent what little time I had with my family.
3. used to say that you think that sth is especially good, bad, etc.
• What awful weather!
• What a beautiful house!
Idioms: ↑-her ▪ ↑-it ▪ ↑and what have you ▪ ↑and what not ▪ ↑get somebody what for ▪ ↑or what ▪ ↑what about …? ▪ ↑what for? ▪ ↑what if …? ▪ ↑what of it? ▪ ↑what with something ▪ ↑what's up with that? ▪ ↑what's what ▪ ↑what's with somebody? ▪ ↑what's with something? ▪ ↑what?

Word Origin:
[what] Old English hwæt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wat and German was, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin quod.